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Series: Buddy and Earl Buddy and Earl Hardcover Maureen Fergus 9781554987122 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Aug 01, 2015

“An understated winner of a friendship story. … simultaneously of-the-moment and timeless.” — Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEWWhat’s in the box that Meredith has carried into the living room? Buddy doesn’t know, but when the small, prickly creature says he is a pirate — and that Buddy is a pirate, too — the mismatched friends are off on a grand adventure.In this first book in the best-selling Buddy and Earl series, a dog who likes to play by the rules meets a hedgehog who knows no limits. Their friendship is tender and loyal, and their adventu... + Read More
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Series: The Menino A Story Based on Real Events Hardcover Isol 9781554987788 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 0 - 3 Oct 01, 2015

A book for babies and their parents about the whole new world that they both encounter when the baby arrives.When the new baby arrives, both the baby and the parents are in for a steep learning curve. In this book, born out of personal experience, internationally renowned author/illustrator Isol brings us a dual narrative and guide. For babies, there’s a rich range of images of babies and all their functions to look at. From crying, to nursing, to peeing and pooing, to looking, to hearing, to deciding that this weird new world they’ve entered i... + Read More
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Series: All Year Round Hardcover Emilie Leduc 9781554984114 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 - 5 Aug 01, 2015

A joyful look at the months of the year through the eyes of a young child.From January through December, experience a world of color, wonder and silliness. March is for celebrating a birthday, July is for swimming upside down, September is for crunchy piles of leaves and December is for a kingdom all in white. Experience a whole year to play and celebrate!Author and illustrator Emilie Leduc brings a vibrant year of childhood to life with her soft yet vivid illustrations and poetic text. Each month of the year shows off a new wonder, and the gid... + Read More
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Series: I Love You, One to Ten Hardcover Caroline Adderson 9781554987085 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 - 5 Sep 01, 2015

In this poem addressed to a young child, author Caroline Adderson outlines the ten things a mother loves about her little one. From his scaly elbows and knees all the way to his twitchy tail, every inch of this little “monster” is itemized and admired.Gentle and humorous illustrations by Christina Leist show how one tired parent decides to participate in a bit of rowdy play at bedtime, with the result being a happily tired child and a mother who is even more in love with her offspring than she was at the beginning of the book.This satisfyingly ... + Read More
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Series: Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox Hardcover Danielle Daniel 9781554987504 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Aug 01, 2015

In this introduction to the Anishinaabe tradition of totem animals, young children explain why they identify with different creatures such as a deer, beaver or moose. Delightful illustrations show the children wearing masks representing their chosen animal, while the few lines of text on each page work as a series of simple poems throughout the book.In a brief author’s note, Danielle Daniel explains the importance of totem animals in Anishinaabe culture and how they can also act as animal guides for young children seeking to understand themselv... + Read More
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Series: West Coast Wild West Coast Wild A Nature Alphabet Hardcover Deborah Hodge 9781554984404 $19.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Sep 01, 2015

Celebrate the Pacific west coast with this gorgeous nature alphabet book. This stunning nature alphabet book explores the fascinating ecosystem of the Pacific west coast — a magnificent area that combines an ancient rainforest, a rugged beach and a vast, open ocean, and where whales, bears, wolves, eagles and a rich variety of marine species thrive in an interconnected web of life. Author Deborah Hodge has spent more than forty years on the west coast, frequently visiting the Pacific Rim region, and she knows it intimately. From A to Z she desc... + Read More
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Series: P'ésk'a and the First Salmon Ceremony Hardcover Scot Ritchie 9781554987184 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Sep 01, 2015

It’s the day of the first salmon ceremony, and P'ésk'a is excited to celebrate. His community, the Sts'ailes people, give thanks to the river and the salmon it brings by commemorating the first salmon of the season.Framed as an exploration of what life was like one thousand years ago, P'ésk'a and the First Salmon Ceremony describes the customs of the Sts'ailes people, an indigenous group who have lived on the Harrison River in British Columbia for the last 10,000 years. Includes an introductory letter from Chief William Charlie, an illustrated ... + Read More
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Series: Two White Rabbits Hardcover Jairo Buitrago 9781554987412 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Oct 01, 2015

In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the US border. They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn’t know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is always on the move, although sometimes they are forced to stop and her father has to earn more money before they can continue their journey. As many thousa... + Read More
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Series: Grant and Tillie Go Walking Hardcover Monica Kulling 9781554984466 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Aug 01, 2015

Grant Wood believed that to be a real artist, he had to live in Paris. But once he got there, he realized that to be a great painter he needed to return to the people and places—and even animals—that he knew and loved the best.Inspired by the life of artist Grant Wood, this is the sensitively imagined story of the great American painter and a cow named Tillie. Skillfully mixing fact with fiction, Monica Kulling’s text explores the making of an artist, while Sydney Smith’s illustrations echo Grant Wood’s own techniques. The result is a gently wi... + Read More
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Series: Some Things I've Lost Hardcover Cybele Young 9781554983391 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 12 Sep 01, 2015

A wallet, a set of keys, a pair of glasses — these are some of the household objects that disappear and are fantastically reconstituted in Cybèle Young’s inventive new picture book. Minimal text conveys the magic of a world where even inanimate objects are constantly undergoing a process of growth, transformation and change.An introduction describing the frustration we feel when we lose something is followed by a catalogue of misplaced objects. Each item is shown first in its original form and then, through a gatefold spread, is shown in the pr... + Read More
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Series: When the Slave Esperança Garcia Wrote a Letter Hardcover Sonia Rosa 9781554987290 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 8 - 11 Oct 01, 2015

In 1770, the slave Esperança Garcia bravely penned a letter to the governor of Piauí state, in Brazil, describing how she and her children were being mistreated and requesting permission to return to the farm where the rest of her family was living.Before she wrote her letter, Esperança Garcia lived on a cotton farm run by Jesuit priests, where she learned to read and write — a rare opportunity for a woman, especially a slave. But one day she was separated from her husband and older children and taken with her two little ones to be a cook in th... + Read More
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Series: A Year Without Mom Hardcover Dasha Tolstikova 9781554986927 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 Oct 01, 2015

A Year Without Mom follows twelve-year-old Dasha through a year full of turmoil after her mother leaves for America.It is the early 1990s in Moscow, and political change is in the air. But Dasha is more worried about her own challenges as she negotiates family, friendships and school without her mother. Just as she begins to find her own feet, she gets word that she is to join her mother in America — a place that seems impossibly far from everything and everyone she loves.This gorgeous and subtly illustrated graphic novel signals the emergence ... + Read More
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Series: Strange Light Afar Tales of the Supernatural from Old Japan Hardcover Rui Umezawa 9781554987238 $18.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Sep 01, 2015

A bitterly jealous brother, a samurai who makes the ultimate sacrifice, a cold-hearted husband, a monk who mistakes desire for piety, a fraudulent merchant who meets his match in a supernatural river otter — the motives underlying these traditional Japanese folktale characters are explored with haunting results. Prompted by the sometimes illogical and perplexing actions of folktale characters (Why doesn’t the wolf kill Little Red Riding Hood right away?), master storyteller Rui Umezawa revisits eight popular Japanese folktales, delving beneath ... + Read More
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Series: Calvin Paperback Martine Leavitt 9781554987207 $14.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Nov 15, 2015

Winner of the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award for Young People's Literature — TextIn the town of Leamington, Ontario, a seventeen-year-old boy is suddenly stricken by a schizophrenic episode and wakes up in hospital. The boy’s name is Calvin, and he is plagued by hallucinations.As the hallucinations persist, Calvin comes to believe that the answer lies in performing one grand and incredible gesture.And so he decides to walk across Lake Erie. In January. The temperatures have been below freezing for weeks. The ice should hold…The lake, it... + Read More
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Series: I Don't Live Here Anymore Hardcover Gabi Kreslehner 9781554988037 $16.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Oct 01, 2015

Charlotte’s life is changed forever when her parents’ marriage breaks up, and Charlotte has to leave her beloved house and her old life behind. Then two very different boys cross her path, and a new emotion creeps into her sadness and anger — an emotion that is both confusing and sweet.Charlotte falls in love with Carlo, tries to stay friends with tough-guy Sulzer and faces the jealousy of the cool-girl clique at school. As she watches her parents cope, sometimes haplessly, with changes in their own personal lives, and as she deals with a new b... + Read More
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Series: The Breadwinner Series Boxed Set Paperback Deborah Ellis 9781554988228 $34.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 Aug 09, 2016

For the first time, the books in the bestselling Breadwinner series — The Breadwinner, Parvana’s Journey, Mud City and My Name Is Parvana — are brought together in a beautiful boxed set. These gripping novels, inspired by stories Deborah Ellis heard in Afghan refugee camps, are loved by children the world over.These fifteenth anniversary editions have new covers and maps, and updated author’s notes. The Breadwinner includes a special foreword by Deborah Ellis.The BreadwinnerEleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-o... + Read More